Monday, June 13, 2011

No NEA RA at Chicago Hyatt. « Fred Klonsky's blog

No NEA RA at Chicago Hyatt. « Fred Klonsky's blog

No NEA RA at Chicago Hyatt.

With less than a month to go before 15,000 NEA members and staffers come to my home town, state delegations have been moved out of Chicago hotels involved in a two year long labor dispute with Unite Here.

The Illinois delegation will now be housed and caucus at the Palmer House instead of the Hyatt Regency.

Chicago, a convention mecca, has no shortage of hotel rooms, so the boycott of Hyatt will be a major blow to the union-hating Pritzker family, who own the Hyatt chain.

The Pritzkers are prominent Chicago Democrats and big-time Obama supporters. They are also major funders of